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Input, and we certainly would have liked to have seen it go faster or sooner, but again, they had a number of things to think through, as well. in terms of adjusting or why we chose to -- why the president chose to leave in the summer versus waiting until the next year, obviously, a number of things went into his decision calculus. but, you know, as we came onboard, the agreement that had been made was that we were going to depart by may 1. we were able to work to get more time to ensure that we could conduct a deliberate and safe and orderly retrograde, but again, you know, the president made...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, president biden, announced his decision, and the u.s. military received a change of mission, to retrog...